To think that the private school VAT case is a waste of time and money?

Yes it really is as simple as pulling your kid out, when they’re in the middle of their GCSEs, and there are no state school places available.

I mean - if she can afford it great - if she can’t, pull her kid out. It was voted in. I wish people would stop trying to make ridiculous claims and bring this to the courts etc. it’s silly - and I say this as a private school parent.

When the word ‘private’ is involved, someone/s somewhere is making money out of it. They are just being asked to pay fair tax on it. This is a non-argument of the rich trying to stay rich.

errrrrrrm yes paid-for breakfast clubs are available, the universal breakfast clubs the government are trialling will be free of charge.

So ignorant.

Erm....breakfast clubs have been around for years in state schools..

rubbish. Its postcode lotttery nonsense. The state primary school my children attend, as well as every state primary school in this county, aready have breakfast clubs, run by external aka private providers. Nobody is asking for breakfast clubs.

Your lack of understanding of the motivation behind the breakfast club scheme is predictable, maybe try viewing things outside of your private school bubble.

The High Court judgement also objected to the use of 'tax break' by the government it has no legal basis. They had to pass a new Act of Parliament to create this new Education Tax opportunity, I definitely think that alone was worth the time and money for the court case The government lying must always be exposed from Rachel's C:V to their freebies to this.

Breakfast clubs in a few schools, that nobody was asking for, as most schools have breakfast clubs already. Pathetic.

Any money saved from the policy of spite, has not been used for state schools or Labour would have announced it. Breakfast clubs are not education.

Agree, Labour are in a race to the bottom.

@skippersy thank you for your comment we may of had assets but sadly not generating income due to various policies like section 24. To sell would have incurred CGT we were lucky getting a bursary I admit it but now that opportunity has been taken away from others abd us available to none. State schools won’t become better now the vat raised which is nil is going towards housing tweet by Starmer now removed on Thursday it’s a disgrace

You're a landlord with numerous properties, if bursaries are going to already highly privileged families like yourself then maybe they do need to be overhauled.

The lack of self awareness is astounding.

RR took £5million funding off state curriculum for advanced maths and Latin

A lot of private schools do International GCSEs. If my kids had to change ( they’ve left now) they’d be really screwed as most of them were.
Plus they did Classics, Russian, Latin, German etc subjects not available in many schools and certainly none near us.

@Mintsj a very fast race to the bottom
my son received a bursary to prep and public no way I could have afforded that it makes me so angry that this opportunity has been taken away from other kids with the withdraw of bursaries assistance for many schools
we were landlords we sold some and have changed the business model ref the others to air band b in direct response to the governments war on landlords hence less rentals
its insane and now the war on business resulting in highest unemployment but Rachel Reeves keeps saying firm footing further and faster she really believes her publicity

Well if it attracts rich overseas students, then I’d argue that yes, that fancy cricket pitch is absolutely needed.

Also, any great sports facility, anywhere is a plus. I’ve used private school sports facilities for evening adult sports that I was involved in. Fantastic.

Also the school may be able to reclaim the VAT that they paid on the sports pitch construction.

it was a policy designed to hurt private schools. Money raised in the short term will be minimal due to repayments of VAT, like the reported £5m to Eton.

It’s all a big race to the bottom. And I don’t mean in terms of maths/english. I mean as a society in general. We have made it hard for private landlords so there is fuck all rental stock now. Yes, many were bastards and screwing tenants. But it’s the decent landlords who’ve sold up in fear.

I feel so sorry for all those kids affected by school closures who are in year 10. They now have to change schools and they are probably doing a different specification. I also feel for all the staff losing their jobs.
I paid a lot of money to buy a house in the catchment of a good state school. Anybody else who does the same as me then criticises the concept of private education is hypocritical imo.

Oh give over @Nominative . This is not the court room, it's a social media chat room. Both my posts say the same thing, that no tangible, specific educational benefit has yet been delivered, but plenty of claims for that money have been spouted. How about you address that instead of picking a fight over posting style?

Don't accuse other posters of being ridiculous when you are admitting that your post didn't say what you intended it to say.

Not quite. The court dismissed the argument that VAT fundamentally altered access to education, stating that the financial burden alone does not breach the right to education

They are an absolute disgrace of jealous hypocrisy I despise their race to the bottom aspirations

Don't be ridiculous. What I mean is that they haven't published or publicised a single, specific educational improvement to state schools as a result of this. Breakfast clubs are not educational and should come out of the welfare budget. I love how it's ok for it to take time for the funds to trickle in (or not) but it wasn't ok to introduce this gradually in September or at next point of entry for kids already in. That tweak might have allowed the gov to persuade a few more people that this wasn't just a spiteful, ideology driven spank to "the rich" and for parents who could no longer continue to organise contingency plans.

They have to offer outstanding sporting facilities because that attracts many students.

God just when you think they can’t go any lower they can’t even stand by their stupid tweet disgraceful